1. What type of text is it? Is the text an essay, news article, feature article, speech, advertisement, letter to the editor, interview, or something else?

2. What is the medium? Quality newspaper, tabloid newspaper, blog, magazine, company or organisational website, textbook, YouTube, or something else?

3. What is the theme/topic/subject?

1. What is the writer´s background? Consider age, gender, education, occupation, religious or political point of view or other important characteristics. These questions are especially important in connection with source criticism.

 

What is the reader's background? Consider age, gender, education…

1. Does the writer appeal to logos? If so, find examples in the text. 

2. Does the writer appeal to pathos? If so, find examples in the text.

3. Does the writer appeal to ethos? If so, find examples in the text.

The theme of the article is immigration and it is about how to become a part of Britain without forgetting about the past and your forefathers. (your own culture and family).

The topic is about a family moving from other countries to work and adapting to  their new society, It shows the difference between the three generations of immigrants. The first generation not being completely Britons still holding on to their culture and their fear that their chlildren would forget about their roots. The second genration is part of the British culture too. They have influences both from  the British and Asian cultures.  They do not feel completely British or Pakistani. The third generation are more confident not afraid to express their Asian roots.  They are also a part of British culture and they do not have a strong if any to their parents´ or grandparents´home country.

The writer appeals to logos sometimes. He tries to appeal to our intelligence, by presenting some reasonable facts. 

“The immigrants were invited for economic reasons… ”  

Pathos is one of the more central appeals. He uses his own story to appeal to the reader’s feelings. 

“He left Pakistan, where his wife and young family remained, and travelled more than 6,000 kilometres to a cold, wet land full of pink strangers who spoke a different language”. (p.135)

We gain sympathy for his father.  

The text is structured as an article. He starts by making a small introduction and afterwards he starts presenting his own story as an immigrant. In his story he starts by telling what happened to the whole family and then slowly he starts to bring himself more and more in to the story. 

In the end he actually presents the problem of immigration. He worries that the immigration might be too good.
He has also structured it by first writing about the first generation immigrants and then second and lastly the third generation immigrants.
4. Is the vocabulary concrete (with many concrete nouns, such as table, chair, house) or abstract (with many abstract nouns, such as problem, problem-solving, science, liberty, human rights), colloquial (hverdagsagtig), formal or neutral? Is there a use of or a lack of adjectives and adverbs, and what is the effect? Are specific words or phrases repeated, and if so, what is the effect?

It is an overall formal language

6. What is characteristic of the tone and style?
 The tone is very calm

10. It’s a story about him and other immigrants settling in Britain as a second generation immigrant

12. Immigrant - the difficult part - your identity

13. How hard and difficult it is to settle as an immigrant, and feel a part of the community

14.

 

 Sometimes we know who the sender is, or we can infer who it is, or we can carry out online research to find out. 

 2. Does the writer use ethos? In other words, does the writer use his or her social, economic or political status with the audience to try to convince the them about something or to persuade them to do something? How?

Type of text: 

Writer

Language and Presentation

“The immigrants were invited for economic reasons, and it was from an economic standpoint that the new arrivals viewed their new home” 

 

Second Generasians 

News article 

Integration and immigrants 

The writer is a second generasian himself. He is born in Pakistan but raised in England. He was only three years old, when he came to GB in 1974. His father travelled to Britain 40 years ago as an immigrant to get a better life. The writer worked very hard to fit into the community and get results which could provide him a good job and life. He was lucky enough to end up as a successful journalist, working both in  media and papers.

He appeals to other immigrants but also common Brits. He wants to show the difficulties of moving to another country with a different culture and values. The writer tries to explain how to find a balance between being integrated but still remembering their indigenous heritage. 

The writer mainly uses ethos and pathos to appeal to the readers. 
Every time the writer appeals to the reader’s emotions(pathos) he also uses ethos, because he uses his own life and experiences to emphasize the message in the text. 

The text is structured with a coherent story about his father and himself. In the start he tells about his father´s concerns about immigrants forgetting their culture, and at the end he comes up with his own similar point of view. 

The text has a conclusion, which is the importance of not forgetting your past, because it contributes to who you become. 

The language is neutral. 

 

Type of text.

The text is an feature article.  

What is the medium? Quality newspaper, tabloid newspaper, blog, magazine, company or organisational website, textbook, YouTube, or something else? 

The medium is a magazine, called Spotlight. 

3. What is the theme/topic/subject? 

The subject is the different generations and integration. It is also about being a outsider, and how to segregate into a new society. 

1. What is the writer s background? Consider age, gender, education, occupation, religious or political point of view or other important characteristics. These questions are especially important in connection with source criticism. 

The writer is from Pakistan. His father arrived in Britain 40 years ago as an immigrant.He is a Muslim from Pakistan. He has a job in the media, and works for Channel 4. He also writes for the British newspapers. 

2. Does the writer use ethos? In other words, does the writer use his or her social, economic or political status with the audience to try to convince the them about something or to persuade them to do something? How? 

The writer appeals to ethos by referring to his own experience./family.He tells about how his father integrated to Britain, to get better job opportunities. “My father arrived in Britain 40 years ago.”

1. Does the writer appeal to logos? If so, find examples in the text. yes

2. Does the writer appeal to pathos? If so, find examples in the text. 

He use pathos when he tells about how his father came to Britain “ he travelled more than 6000 kilometers to a cold, wet land full of pink strangers, who spoke a different language” 

3. How is the text structured? Is there a coherent overall structure? Is the theme introduced at the beginning and then elaborated on? Is there a conclusion at the end? 

What is characteristic of the tone and style? 

7. Do any of the words have positive or negative connotations?

8. Sound effects: are there examples of alliteration or assonance? 

9. Is imagery implied? Is symbolism? Are there examples of metaphor, simile or personification? 

10. Does the language belong to a certain dialect or sociolect? 

12. Are therse any references to specific topics, places or people? 

He references a lot to himself and his father 

13. What arguments are used? Are they weak or strong? 

14. Are there illustrations? If yes, what kind and what is the relationship 

between illustration and text? 

15. Is the presentation balanced and fair, or is it biased? 

The text Second Generasians is an article from 2004. 

The topic for the text is immigration and integration. It deals among other things with the identity crisis that second generations of Asian immigrants experience.

The writer reflects on his own experiences on immigration, and on what he has observed from other immigrants.

He appeals to pathos, when he describes how his father moved to a completely new country with a totally different culture and filled with strangers.

There is a lot of discussion on the refugee crisis in Europe, and how refugees and immigrants should adapt to  the new country and society. 
Also the fact that it has become cool to be Asian.

The writer has written the text “Second Generasian” for immigrants to remember where they come from. Of course you have to integrate into your new country but you shouldn’t forget who you are and where you are from.